Plural of locale
regular plural
The plural of locale is locales.
Forms of locale
| Singular | locale /ləʊˈkɑːl/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | locales |
| Countable | countable |
Locales in a sentence
- As a non-neutral action, the work of capturing also scales differently in different locales.2014, Roger Lee, Noel Castree, Rob Kitchin, The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography, 2v. From the entry hypernetworked
- Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales.2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey continues to cope with Hurricane Sandy”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2012. From the entry devastation
- Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state's well-known locales.2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey reels from storm's thrashing”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry buckle
- In some locales, it may also be illegal to create them.2005, Jesper M Johansson, Steve Riley, Protect your Windows network: from perimeter to data. From the entry slipstream
- In other crab-enthusiastic locales, such as Maryland, the term takes on a different form and meaning.2003, Michael Gartland, “Drought Forces Awendaw, S.C., Crab Festival to Import from Louisiana”, in Knight Ridder Tribune Business News…. From the entry dead men's fingers
Meaning of locale
- noun The place where something happens.
- noun The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
- noun A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.).
Questions about the plural of locale
- What is the plural of locale?
- The plural of locale is locales.
- Is locale countable?
- Locale is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: locale (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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